Description
A code injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) 'ros2topic' command-line tool, affecting all ROS 2 distributions from Crystal Clemmys up to and including Lyrical Luth and Rolling Ridley. The vulnerability lies in the 'hz' verb, which reports the publishing rate of a topic and accepts a user-provided Python expression via the --filter option. This input is passed directly to the eval() function without sanitization, allowing a local user to craft and execute arbitrary code.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Open Source Robotics Foundation Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2)
Default version status: unaffected
Rolling RidleyaffectedLyrical LuthaffectedKilted KaijuaffectedJazzy JaliscoaffectedIron IrwiniaffectedHumble HawksbillaffectedGalactic GeocheloneaffectedFoxy FitzroyaffectedEloquent ElusoraffectedDashing DiademataaffectedCrystal Clemmysaffected